Bob Clifford Part of ABA Program Featuring Nation's Top Litigators

On behalf of Clifford Law Offices PC posted in Firm News on Wednesday, April 19, 2017.

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices, is participating in a competition featuring the best litigators in the country at the American Bar Association Section of Litigation Annual Conference in San Francisco from May 3-5.

Four of the nation's top trial lawyers, including Clifford and Daralyn Durie, founder of Durie Tangri, one of Silicon Valley's go-to boutiques, whose clients include Google, Genentech and Twitter, will compete in "Shoot Out at the Barbary Coast Corral-The Masters of Closing Argument."

Each will present a closing argument for a fact pattern modeled on the high-profile Pao v. Kleiner Perkins trial. Each of the four lawyers donated $10,000 and $40,000 will be awarded to the winner's designated charity.

Others competing are: James Brosnahan, senior trial counsel of Morrison & Foerster's San Francisco office, who defended the "American Taliban" in the first post-9/11 terrorism prosecution; Bart Williams, co-chair of Proskauer Rose's Los Angeles litigation department, who has been described by the Chambers USA guide as "one of the smoothest trial lawyers you'll ever come across;" and Clifford, founder of Clifford Law Offices in Chicago, who won a $29.6 million verdict for an internationally acclaimed violinist who was run over by a train.

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